Outside the Beltway

At least for now, Republicans seem to be giving up on repealing and replacing the PPACA. That’s not going to make the base happy.

Reports are indicating that President Trump will decertify the nuclear weapons deal with Iran. This would be a foolish and potentially dangerous mistake.

The Supreme Court appears split on the question of whether or not partisan Gerrymandering is unconstitutional.

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

While there are real differences between what’s being reported about White House officials such as Jared Kushner and what Hillary Clinton did, the charge of hypocrisy is well-founded.

In President Trump’s mind, American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights are “sons of bitches” who should be fired for exercising their rights.

President Trump’s job approval has improved slightly, but the numbers remain historically low for a newly elected President.

Independents don’t seek to shape party nominations.

President Trump reportedly openly humiliated his own Attorney General after learning of Bob Mueller’s appointment.

Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.

Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has resigned and will reportedly go to work for Donald Trump.

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

On Trump’s anger.

“Why the hell would we do that?” — White House official.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

Trump and his underlings continue to lie, even about the most trivial of matters.

A new poll shows that most Americans want Republicans want to move on from their failed effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are making clear that President Trump’s tweets are not official policy. At least not yet.

President Trump’s weeklong effort to undermine his own Attorney General continues.

Don’t cry for Spicer.

Six months of revelations about ties to Russia is taking its toll on White House staffers.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is apparently chafing under a White House that isn’t letting him do his job.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

The Senate GOP health care reform care bill faces a crucial week, and things aren’t looking good.

Twitter is, in some way, the most vacuous and simplistic of all social media, and it also appears to be the President’s main intellectual outlet.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.

Great Britain heads to the polls today.

Congress is running out of time in its effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.

The Trump Administration will not try to stop former F.B.I. Director James Comey from testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

Former F.B.I. Director James Comey is now expected to testify before Congress next week, and will reportedly confirm previous reports that the President pressured him to end the Bureau’s Russia investigation.

In the immortal words of Warren Zevon, “Send lawyers, gun, and money. The shit has hit the fan.”

The President is being fed “news” from questionable news sources, and that’s a problem.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

The American Health Care Act may have sailed through the House, but the Senate is another story.

There’s been a palace coup at The Heritage Foundation.

Faced with the fact that it has little to show for its first 100 days in office, the Trump Administration is pressuring Congress to come up with a new health care reform bill before the end of next week.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

Next week’s big news is likely to be the Senate’s vote to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which could mean invocation of the so-called ‘nuclear option’ by Senate Republicans.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

More fireworks on the second day of the questioning of Neil Gorsuch, but his confirmation nonetheless seems assured.

Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings begin Monday morning, but it’s Senate Democrats who are in the hot seat.